when I see things like this I'm always perplexed about where they put the house. Somebody own the land/parking spot/rooftop. Are they renting the space to put the house? Or did they just pick a spot and the property owners haven't quite worked out how to tell them to leave?
Funny, when I think of Lavender Hill Mob or Kind Hearts and Coronets, I think of Alec Guinness himself, but when I think of Bridge over River Kwai, my memory has him in his Jedi robes.
You can let your president shut off YOUR internet, but if he shuts off MY internet, then I'll backtrace him and report him to the cyberpolice, cause he dun goofed!
Revelations isn't puzzling: Dude had a freaky nightmare. He wrote it down in a time when not a lot of people were writing stuff down, particularly not dream journals. Couple thousand years of overly-literal interpretations follow. It's still just woo. Epic woo.
The Investigator wasn't looking for the Northwest Passage, it was looking for the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror of the Franklin expedition, which was looking for the Northwest Passage.
Also, the Investigator wasn't found in Arctic ice, it was found in Arctic water; They were only able to find it because this area is ice free for the first time in anyone's memory.
There are a few very cool things about this story worth mentioning. - While the precise location of the ship used high tech sounding gear, the rough location of the Investigator was established using Inuit oral stories. - The Investigator's mission represents one of the earliest contacts between Europeans and Inuit. The Inuit in this area were known as the Copper Inuit because they had so much copper, which they had stripped off the abandoned hulk of the Investigator before it was swallowed by the ice. -The crew of the Investigator spent four years trapped in ice before basically walking until they were rescued by another ship. -The investigator made it farther through the NW passage than any other other ship.
"How does having the sign stolen three times in 20 years equate to it getting stolen five minutes after a new one was installed, unless they went years every time before getting a new sign?"
I can understand: we have a village nearby called Punkydoodles Corner. Their sign gets stolen within a week of it getting replaced, so they just don't replace it - until some new mayor or councilor shows up and enthusiastically pushes for a bigger and more permanent sign, which then gets stolen within a week. The cycle repeats, but it takes a few years until new enthusiasm for signage appears in the village council.
Also, the Investigator wasn't found in Arctic ice, it was found in Arctic water; They were only able to find it because this area is ice free for the first time in anyone's memory.
There are a few very cool things about this story worth mentioning.
- While the precise location of the ship used high tech sounding gear, the rough location of the Investigator was established using Inuit oral stories.
- The Investigator's mission represents one of the earliest contacts between Europeans and Inuit. The Inuit in this area were known as the Copper Inuit because they had so much copper, which they had stripped off the abandoned hulk of the Investigator before it was swallowed by the ice.
-The crew of the Investigator spent four years trapped in ice before basically walking until they were rescued by another ship.
-The investigator made it farther through the NW passage than any other other ship.
"How does having the sign stolen three times in 20 years equate to it getting stolen five minutes after a new one was installed, unless they went years every time before getting a new sign?"
I can understand: we have a village nearby called Punkydoodles Corner. Their sign gets stolen within a week of it getting replaced, so they just don't replace it - until some new mayor or councilor shows up and enthusiastically pushes for a bigger and more permanent sign, which then gets stolen within a week. The cycle repeats, but it takes a few years until new enthusiasm for signage appears in the village council.